Kauri verandahs from the 1890s, twenty acres of garden, and the Jamison Valley dropping away beyond the lawn
Yester Grange is a state-heritage-listed Victorian house at the end of Yester Road in Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains about 95 kilometres west of Sydney. Built of New Zealand kauri before 1891 for the Sydney builder John Charles Smith, it was bought in 1902 by NSW Premier Sir John See, who added the ballroom. Restored from 1975 and a house museum until 1999, it has hosted weddings since 2012. Twenty acres of private parkland sit above the Wentworth Falls waterfall, over the Jamison Valley.
We photographed Heidi and Russell’s ceremony and reception here. The walk from the homestead gardens to the escarpment is five minutes and a hundred years: heritage lace behind you, then a sandstone ledge over an ocean of blue ridges. Heidi’s veil against that drop is the frame we will never delete.
Galleries from this collection are being added as the archive moves across. See every wedding.
Yester Grange faces the Jamison Valley and the escarpment light changes by the minute; mist can swallow the view and hand it back twice in one session, so we build slack into the timeline and shoot every version. Lincoln’s Rock is a short drive for the big ledge frame, and mornings and late afternoons dodge the crowds there. Mountain evenings run cold even in summer: bring the wrap, it photographs well anyway. The ballroom is the wet-weather room. The gallery above is Heidi and Russell’s day in order.